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Tuesday, 10 May 2016

Washington is preparing to mount a campaign to transfer control of Syrian territory currently held by ISISto rebels who operate under US influence,
forming a rebel redoubt from which US proxies can continue to wage war
on Damascus, and establishing the foundation of a US puppet state in
Syria.

A key to US strategy is the artificial division of the conflict into a part to be resolved by military means, involving ISIS, and a part to be resolved through a political settlement, involving all other rebel formations. Nusra Front, the exception, is to be ignored, and rebranded.
As Al-Qaeda's Syria franchise, it can hardly be embraced openly by the
United States, though there is evidence of its being equipped covertly
by the CIA.
The designation of non-ISIS rebels as parties to a political
settlement follows the shibboleth that the conflict, apart from ISIS's
role in it, cannot be resolved militarily. This may be true, but
only because the non-ISIS rebels have been trained and armed by Western
states and their regional allies and therefore have a military
significance they would not otherwise possess. Damascus's early
efforts to arrive at a political settlement by lifting restrictions on
political liberties and amending the constitution went nowhere. This
is because the goal of the armed opposition is the replacement of a
secular non-sectarian state with one based on a conservative Sunni
interpretation of the Qur'an, and because the military backing of
powerful Western and regional states offers no incentive for militant
Islamists to compromise. At the same time, the reality that the
Ba'athist government in Damascus hangs on despite the powerful
international forces arrayed against it, speaks volumes about the strong
public support it commands. Its political survival, in the fifth year
of an open multi-national war against it, and more than a decade after
Washington launched a covert program of regime change aimed at purging
Ba'athist ideology from the Syrian state,1 would not be possible in the face of widespread opposition from the Syrian public.

US Special Forces are recruiting and equipping Sunni Arab fighters to capture Raqqa, the capital of ISIS's caliphate. Once
captured, the territory will likely remain in the hands of the US
surrogates and almost certainly won't be returned to the legitimate
Syrian government. Instead, it will form the core of a US-puppet regime in Syria.
The objective of sharply distinguishing between ISIS and other rebel
organizations is to legitimize a US-led campaign against the former,
and to undermine the legitimacy of the Syrian-Iranian-Russian-Hezbollah
effort to defend the Syrian state and its loyalists against all other
rebel forces, namely, those backed by the US and its allies. We
are to believe that it is perfectly reasonable for the US to wage war on
the sectarian, terrorist, ISIS, but that Damascus must negotiate a
peace with ISIS's sectarian, terrorist, ideological cousins.

It has been extensively reported in the leading US newspapers, and
acknowledged by the US vice-president, that the Nusra Front is armed by
US allies Saudi Arabia, Qatar, and Turkey. The same newspapers also
frequently refer to Western backing of other rebel groups. These groups
have been variously described by leading US journalists as working with, enmeshed with, cooperating with, fighting alongside of, and operating under license to Al-Qaeda's Syrian franchise, and have been reported to share weapons with it.2
Both Nusra and other non-ISIS rebel forces are ISIS's ideological
cognates, sharing its ultra-conservative, Saudi-inspired Islamist
ideology, but rejecting the idea that a caliphate is the only legitimate
form of government. Efforts to arm non-ISIS rebels are coordinated,
according to The New York Times, by the CIA.3 Putting two and two together, if US regional allies are equipping the Nusra Front, and the CIA is coordinating their efforts, then the CIA is arming the Qaeda franchise in Syria,
on top of the other rebel groups which operate alongside of it. This
likely accounts for why the CIA program is covert, while a parallel $500
million Pentagon program to train and equip rebels who had no ties to
Al Qaeda, was not. That program was abandoned, after the Pentagon failed
to recruit enough non-Qaeda aligned fighters.4

The Syrian government is asked to accept a political dialogue with
non-ISIS rebels and to enter into cease-fire agreements with them, while
at the same time the United States is to be left free to pursue, with
its allies, a military campaign against ISIS—one that involves the
injection of Western special forces into Syrian territory and therefore
an illegal violation of Syrian sovereignty. That campaign, which is now
underway, involves several hundred Western military personnel operating
on the ground to recruit and equip Sunni Arab fighters to capture
territory in Syria that is now held by ISIS.

It would appear that the strategy has two goals.

To expand Syrian territoryunder the control of US proxy forces by capturing territory currently held by ISIS. Once captured, it will be held by US proxies.

To stop further gains by Syrian-Iranian-Russian and Hezbollah forces against US-backed Islamists by insisting on the cessation of hostilities against them and political dialogue.

As the Syrian government engages in fruitless talks with Western-backed
Islamist militants, a US-controlled rebel redoubt will be established in
eastern Syria, from which the war on Damascus will continue to be
prosecuted. The dialogue is fruitless because the rebels, and their paymasters, are implacably opposed to compromise.
Anyone who believes that Washington is honestly trying to foster a
peace in Syria (except on its own terms, namely, only if Ba'athist
ideology is irrevocably effaced from the halls of power in Damascus) is
deluded. Imperialists, as Mao observed, do not lay down their butcher knives to become Buddhists.

In the meantime, Nusra Front will operate under a variety of different names. Indeed, it appears, given the extensive inter-penetration of Western-backed rebels with the Qaeda franchise in Syria, that it already does. This meshes with head of US intelligence James Clapper's admission that "moderate" means nothing more than "not ISIS";5
which is to say, it denotes nothing about a group's aims or methods,
and serves the propaganda function of connoting "good." "Moderate"
rebels, we are to understand, are "good" rebels, even though their aims and methods may be largely indistinguishable from those of ISIS and the Qaeda Syrian franchise they are enmeshed with. Read more

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